C. A. (Charles A.) Higgins

Charles A. Higgins wrote promotional and travel books connected with the Santa Fe Route, including New Guide to the Pacific Coast, To California and Back, To California Over the Santa Fe Trail, and Titan of Chasms: The Grand Canyon of Arizona.

The records available here point much more clearly to his work than to his personal life. Library and catalog sources consistently credit him as the author of these books, many of them published by the Passenger Department of the Santa Fe, which suggests he was closely involved in presenting the landscapes, rail journeys, and attractions of the American Southwest to a broad reading public.

Because reliable biographical details about him are hard to confirm from the sources I found, it is safest to remember him chiefly as a lively interpreter of Western travel at a time when railroads were shaping how people discovered the region.